These days, upcycling seems to be on trend. On TV, particularly natty-looking hipsters demonstrate how to re-purpose ordinary household objects into beautiful, inventive items, often made for little money—and sometimes sold to “boutique shops” for a handsome sum. In countless cafés, you’ll find up-cycled tin cans as cutlery holders and canning jars as drinking glasses….
The Virtues of Upcycling: Upgrade Your Home, Cut Down on Waste, Let Your Creativity Run Wild
Best of Treasures: Pallme-Konig Vase Impressive Jugendstil Find
By Helaine Fendelman and Joe Rosson From Tribune News Service Dear Helaine and Joe: Enclosed is a picture of a 17-inch-tall glass vase with metal frame. I want to insure and/or sell it. I believe it is Bohemian glass by Palma Koenig. What would be the estimated value of this blue/green vase, which is in…
Design Recipes: How to Strike Balance With Black and White
By Cathy Hobbs From Tribune News Service Black and white is a neutral color combination that can easily be dressed up or dressed down, while in many cases serving as the ideal foundation for nearly any color palette. The key, many designers argue, is striking the ideal balance for how and when to use combinations…
How to Choose the Best Kitchen Window Treatments
In a room as functional as a kitchen, window treatments provide one of the few elements of softness and decoration amid utilitarian appliances and hard surfaces. Curtains and shades can deliver a pop of color, pattern or texture that the room otherwise lacks, while boosting privacy and controlling natural light. Because you use this hardworking…
Holiday Hosting: Tips for Decorating a Buffet Table and Serving Your Guests With Style
Don’t stress about holiday hosting; this no-fuss guide will help you plan a festive gathering. Create a Buffet Centerpiece Add to the holiday cheer of your party table with a creative display. Choose a festive tin or basket. Place some greenery in the center, then fill the container with apples, oranges, or other fruits, top…
Deck the Halls (and Walls) With Fresh Cranberries for a Stunning Result
Fresh cranberries are available in supermarkets and grocery stores from October through December—a very short season! Stock up on fresh cranberries during the fall. Freeze them right in the bags they come in and they’ll be good for up to 12 months. Cranberries are a good source of various vitamins and antioxidants. And as nutritious…
5 Design Choices That Make Your Home Easier to Clean
Typically, we design and decorate our homes to fit our sense of style—and then those decor choices dictate our cleaning routines. We dust our open shelving weekly, and wipe down the marble countertop daily. But what if the process was reversed? What if we designed our homes to make them as easy to clean as…
Easy Swaps to Give Your House an Instant Upgrade
Sometimes the simplest decorating swaps can yield the biggest returns. These one-hit-wonder changes will invigorate your spaces with minimal effort on your part. But be forewarned: One swap may make you want to do another … and another. But that’s what makes decorating fun, right? Pillows Swap standard-issue pillows for something with personality. Ditch the…
How to Plant a Window Box
Window boxes give gardeners an affordable outlet to do what they love most: experiment. Known as one of the first living walls, window boxes have been a longtime favorite of gardeners. They continue to be a popular landscape element today, and often stand in for front yards at homes that open to the sidewalk. Although…
5 Tricks to Organize Your Home Like a Boutique Hotel
What makes a hotel stay feel luxurious is often the simplest of things: fluffy towels, clean sheets, and mini toiletries—there whenever you need them. Do you want to recreate that same sense of indulgence in your own space? Use these organizational ideas to give your home the five-star treatment. Restock and Refresh Your Bath Towels…
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